A very good and readable howto is available at http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_subversion_websvn. I have made some additional changes after following this guide. The guide requires you to manually add each repository manually to the dav_svn.conf file. It is possible to do this differently, in a VirtualHost configuration. Do not enable the lines in dav_svn.conf but add the following lines to your desired VirtualHost configuration, in this example with ServerName svn.example.com:

<Location>
    Deny from all
    Allow from 192.168
</Location>
<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /var/svn/repository/
    SVNListParentPath on
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion Repository"
    AuthUserFile /var/www/svn.example.com/dav_svn.passwd
    Require valid-user
</Location>

In this configuration there are the following things to keep in mind:

• The parent folder of my SVN repository is different than the mentioned guide, /var/svn-repos is changed to /var/svn/repository
• Access to this repository is restricted to only a specific subnet (192.168.*.* which is my own local network) by the first Location directive
• All repositories are accessible via _http://svn.example.com/svn/\[name of repository] . _The usernames and passwords are configured in the dav_svn.passwd file, generated with htpasswd -c _/var/www/svn.example.com/dav_svn.passwd _(do not forget to create the folder in /var/www).